Local Justice Process Agreed at Peace Talks
Government and rebel negotiators decide local courts and traditional reconciliation efforts are the best way to secure peace and justice.
Government and rebel negotiators decide local courts and traditional reconciliation efforts are the best way to secure peace and justice.
Rebels dismiss government appeal for the release of people held against their will.
Research data suggest that northern Uganda’s rebels kidnapped and forcibly conscripted nearly 80,000 people over the years, including twice as many children as previously believed.
Leading LRA suspect says Hague court would also have to indict members of the Ugandan army.
Northerners divided over ICC warrants for LRA and calls for the army to be investigated.
Peace talks still deadlocked by rebel demands that international court indictments be dropped.
LRA leader’s victims want him to be brought to account - but aren’t sure how.
Human rights groups welcome the move, but say the ICC should have filed similar charges in Uganda, Sudan and Congo.
Locals say Ugandan army forces as well as the rebels have a long history of violence which is likely never to go to court.
Former female LRA fighters often cold-shouldered by members of their tribes, despite undergoing reconciliation rituals.